Indirect Influencers: How I.T., Management And Maintenance Can Positively Impact Warehouse Productivity

With a decline in manpower on the typical warehouse floor, automation improvements will have incrementally less impact, and exceptions will have incrementally greater impact. The manufacturing sector is under pressure to fulfill recovering demand under these conditions. For the fully-resourced warehouse, working with colleagues in information technology, management, and maintenance on technologies to improve their respective productivity can lead to indirect but substantial benefits in the productivity of the warehouse itself.

We all understand the impact that even a small productivity gain within an enterprise's warehouse operations can have on the entire organization. What is less clear is the inverse—how improvements in other facets of the organization can benefit supply chain productivity. In this white paper, we'll examine three "indirect influencers"—areas of an enterprise upon which a supply chain's productivity often depends —and discuss how new technologies and market trends can improve those groups in ways you can see in the bottom line. Those areas are information technology (I.T.), management, and maintenance.